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Ranking

Overview Ranking

The World Ranking and World Junior Ranking is a list of players/pairs in order of strength. There is one list for each of the five Badminton disciplines – men’s singles, women’s singles, men’s doubles, women’s doubles and mixed doubles.

Key facts about the World Ranking System are below. For full details of the World RankingSystem are describe in the BWF Statutes.

Players/pairs

win ranking points by playing in tournaments that are graded

are ranked if they have played in two or more graded tournaments in the last 12 months

win ranking points by playing in and winning matches in tournaments

the higher the level of tournament, the more points are won

the further reached in a competition, the more points are won

can be seeded based on their World Ranking

can qualify for the Olympic Games and the World Championships based on their World Ranking

Events Included in the World Ranking

The Rankings are compiled from the results of events that are sanctioned by the BWF (except Junior and Invitational events) held over the last 52 week period. The Current World Rankings are published on a Thursday every week on the BWF website.

World Ranking Points Table

Rounds

BWF Events(BWF World WCH & OG)

BWF Superseries Finals &

Premier

Super series

Grand Prix Gold

Grand Prix

Intl Challenge

Intl Series

Future Series

Winner

12000

11000

9200

7000

5500

4000

2500

1700

Runner up

10200

9350

7800

5950

4680

3400

2130

1420

*3/4

8400

7700

6420

4900

3850

2800

1750

1170

5/8

6600

6050

5040

3850

3030

2200

1370

920

9/16

4800

4320

3600

2720

2110

1520

920

600

17/32

3000

2660

2220

1670

1290

920

550

350

33/64

1200

1060

880

660

510

360

210

130

65/128

600

520

430

320

240

170

100

60

129/256

240

170

130

100

70

40

20

257/512

120

80

60

45

30

20

10

513/1024

60

40

30

30

20

10

5

*At the Olympic Games 3rd place will receive 9200 points. Fourth place will receive 8400 points.